Quotes About Growth

Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don't have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

In the long term, I can see how siblings could be helpful in life?someone to share family secrets with, someone of your own generation who knows if your memories are right or wrong, someone who sees you at eight and eighteen and forty-eight all at the once, and doesn't mind. I understand that. But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.

I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Every traveller returns home.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

there's something important about going back to books you've already read. You will always find new thing inside or have new reaction to characters you thought you already knew well. You learn more about the story and you also learn more about yourself as a reader, and where you are in life.

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

En una primera cita buena, todo es primavera. Y cuando una de esas citas se convierte en una relación, la primavera continúa. Incluso cuando todo ya se ha acabado, puede seguir siendo primavera.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

If you wan to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it -A

If you want to live withinthe definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow from shadow, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. -Ben

The phoenix calls to me. It looks me in the eye and knows who I am. It knows that we each can be more than just one thing. It knows that we live in a perpetual state of beginning and a perpetual state of ending. I would wear that on my skin were I ever given skin of my own. I would let it send its wordless message to everyone I meet, as a way for them to get to know me a little more, to understand my flight path a little better

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there... and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.

Si hacen las cosas bien, la próxima generación tendrá mucho más de lo que ustedes tuvieron.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

Si quieres vivir de acuerdo a tu propia verdad, debes estar dispuesto a pasar el proceso para descubrir cuál es que, al principio es doloroso, pero, a la postre, es reconfortante